Holy wow the Know Your Enemy episode on Rene Girard with John Ganz. So good. Based on this series: open.substack.com/pub/johng…
JRRT doesn’t need me to hype him, but man what a relief to give up on Dune (sorry, still excruciating at 150 pp+) and go back to The Hobbit at my 13 yr old’s request. The beauty and freshness of the sentences is a salve for the brain.
No train ride is too long in company of John Tavener’s sublime “Funeral Canticle.”
I’m pleased to have an essay in the catalogue accompanying SFMOMA’s exhibition opening later this year on the design of sports: Get In the Game, starting October: www.sfmoma.org/press-rel…
My five year old niece: “Jesus is the son of God, and he glows in the dark.” You said it, kid.
So much of parenting teenagers is choosing what *not to say. Sometimes all my brain cells are going toward an inner monologue: keep your mouth shut, keep it shut, nope, shut shut
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A cathedral of motion pictures, a cathedral of learning, a cathedral of commerce. A “machine that makes the land pay.” sarahendren.com/2024/01/2…
On set this past weekend with an architect making one-armed tools in his wood shop. Film premieres in May at the Design Museum Zurich! And hoping to find an online distributor after.
Rewatched The Crash Reel for my class on disability. It’s really, really well done — no simple answers, and an incredibly beautiful look at the family unit as a strong organism. Recommended.
My architecture master’s students are even more astute and curious than I hoped. Now accepting recs for poetry and songs about the built environment — the weirder, the better!
Today’s runner’s high courtesy of frigid weekday temps and a mid-morning outing, making it possible to sing a joyous and warbling version of Making Plans for Nigel, unobserved and unheard
My heart! One of my architecture grads in the writing class asked me to help him launch a blog as he finishes up grad school.
Also sorry to be a heretic, but Dune is…badly written? 13 year old son and I are 70 pages in and I just don’t care about these overwrought storylines.
Oof, got conned last night at a gas station in the most cynical way. I’ve lived in cities long enough that I should’ve trusted my spidey sense that something was off, but this guy saw a mom with two kids in tow, knew I’d have animal-mama flight mode overruling my cognition.
Attention folks who work with exceptionally curious undergrads: two-week workshop with Becca Rothfeld and Jon Baskin at UChicago! Sure to be great. www.publicthinking.thepointmag.com/workshop
Today in optimism: these many efforts supported by the Consistent Life Ethic Action Fund. www.consistentlifenetwork.org/action-fo…
And speaking of my kids in high school, I am truly less certain than ever what to even wish for, college-wise, for my two neurotypical youngers. Some days I think: Great Books or nothing; other days I think it doesn’t really matter at all. La la laaa….
Trying to decide if it’s worth it to go to bat for more paper-based work in my kids’ public high school. Every last thing is on screens. And the “saving trees” rationale is ludicrous compared to meat-heavy cafeteria lunches. ??